This former star child was allowed to "run wild," said co-star
The actor of the family Marie Jo Payton details a disagreement on the set with Jaleel White.
Steve Urkel has become a beloved sitcom character to bother his neighbors, the Winslows, onThe family counts, and it seems that there have also been over -screen problems between them. In a new interview withEntertainment tonight,,Marie Jo Payton, who played Harriette Winslow, said she had livedan incident withJaleel White,, Who played Steve, it could have become a physical altercation. According to Payton, it was the reputation of the young actor who was not controlled that led to the situation.
This is not the first time thatMember of the family The distribution members were raised and White himself mentioned problems in the past. Read the rest to see what Payton had to say on a particularly dramatic moment.
Read this then:The former star child says that the comments of the body "killed his confidence".
Payton says the incident occurred in the last season.
The family counts broadcast for nine seasons, from 1989 to 1998. Payton saidEntertainment tonight It was during the ninth season that she and White had a major disagreement.
"There was once when he really wanted to fight me physically," said Payton. "We were doing an episode entitled" [Original] Gangsta Dawg ". There was something he wanted to do, and I said:" We cannot do this. Standards and practices will not let it pass. ""
The questions degenerated from there.
Payton said White "was so crazy, he started kicking and cries and things." The actor said she was moving away, but heard that White said, "She had to want to get involved." Payton asked what a "melee" was and discovered that it means "a fight".
""Darius [McCrary, who played Eddie] caught me: "Payton continued." I was going to whip [white] behind. ""
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Payton does not completely blame White for his behavior.
Payton saidEntertainment tonight that she does not give White "all the credit" for what he did, stressing that he was "just a child". During the season in question, White would have been around 21, but he joined the series at the age of 12. Steve became the character in small groups at the startThe family counts, make white extremely famous at a young age. He is now 45 years old.
"I also give some of these adults credit," said Payton without developing who she was talking about. "Let him go wild and do whatever he wanted to do, thinking he can say what he means, you know, and hurt people's feelings and all that."
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White said he was not welcomed by the casting.
The family counts is a spin-off ofPerfect strangersinitially meant to turn around Harriette and her family. But likeThe family counts Decoked, Steve Urkel has become a much larger presence than initially expected.AE0FCC31AE342FD3A1346EBB1F342FCB
In an interview withUnwaveredIn 2021, White said (Going throughWeekly entertainment), "I did not see how I walked on the toes of anyone, I took the shine of anyone. It is very important that I say this: I was not at all welcomed in the casting, Okay? And I don't need to replay this with adults again and again. They know what it is. "He explained that Payton,Reginald Veljohnson, who played Carl, andTelma Hopkins, who played Rachel, "all entered this show with the idea that it is [their] vehicle to burst."
White said he had no problem with any of his co-stars now. "I think they sometimes deserve credit for helping to promote a more harmonious environment by season 3, by season 4, by season 5," he said. "And we have become a family."
Payton said there was resentment about his biggest role.
Also in 2021, aReal Hollywood history episode onThe family countsbroadcast. Payton spoke of the moment the network told the distribution that "the dynamics were going to change" to focus more on Steve Urkel. "And we said" okay, "said Payton (Via E! News ). "We were not satisfied. I think that in the course of the road, it had to be a bit resentful, but it was just an adjustment that we had to make."
In his new interview with Entertainment tonight , Payton was questioned on White saying he was not welcomed by the casting, and she replied: "He needs to overcome anything who biting him. He did not have the label that can -Itre me and others. "
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